Quality & Patient Safety
The Unit Safety Score provides a comprehensive, weighted measure of inpatient safety performance by tracking eleven key domains across harm and best practice events. Calculated on a rolling three-month basis, the score is designed to help healthcare nursing units identify and address preventable…
As value-based care models grow, hospitals, providers and payers need to align goals and incentives to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.
In this conversation, Jefferson Health's Cara Martino, DNP, R.N., enterprise vice president of clinical improvement and transformation, and Trish Henwood, M.D., executive vice president and chief clinical officer, discuss the organization's ever-growing patient population.
Implementing TeamSTEPPS is only the beginning, this webinar is all about sustaining the benefits and moving the needle on culture change. Discover long-term strategies for embedding TeamSTEPPS principles into daily practice and how to plan for sustainability through ongoing training, leadership…
In a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine in December, physician-scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston compared a chatbot’s large language model (LLM) reasoning abilities directly against human performance using standards developed to assess physicians.
In this episode, I talk with Steve Diaz, M.D., chief medical officer at MaineGeneral Health in Augusta and an AHA board member. Steve is an emergency medicine physician by training and has been involved in many of MaineGeneral’s health care quality and safety initiatives.
In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Steven Diaz, M.D., chief medical officer at MaineGeneral Health and board member at the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association, discusses his passion for patient safety, how his organization meets quality care for its community, and how AI could potentially be…
The AHA Sept. 26 launched a new video series in which former AHA Board Chair Mindy Estes, M.D., has conversations with hospital and health system leaders about strategies that executives and boards are taking to advance patient safety and quality.
Health care leaders drive safer, high-quality care in AHA Leading for Safety series, featuring Quest for Quality awardees and expert strategies.
In this webinar, AHA policy experts, Jennifer Holloman, Senior Associate Director, Physician and Alternative Payment Model Policy, Shannon Wu, Director, Inpatient Payment Policy and Akin Demehin, Senior Director, Quality Policy provided an overview of the TEAM final rule.